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by nradov 527 days ago
Health care now has significant price transparency, although there are still some major gaps and it can be challenging to shop for the best option. Many consumers are still unaware of the tools available.

https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/healthplan-pr...

https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/hospital-pric...

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Good luck trying to make sense of it.

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-03-23-illusion-of-transpar...

> Humana published their MRFs across 11,000,000 different files, then rate-limited how fast you could download them

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35347647

Your missing the point. No one expects consumers to download the MRFs. Humana plan members can just log in to their web portal to search for the treatment they need and see prices across all the local network providers.
> Humana plan members can just log in to their web portal to search for the treatment they need and see prices across all the local network providers.

Maybe. The article also asserts their data, where available, is often also wrong. See the section titled "Cross checking with hospital data".